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Our projects
Projects accomplished
Great success for the Play festival in Hebron!
The fourth Play festival called “together with children” was held from April 7 to 9 in Hebron in partnership with the happy child center, the youth club in Halhoul, the children club of Beit Ula and the play and animation center of Al Aroub refugee camp. This festival was organized with the support of Childreach International, Catholic Relief Services (Caritas France) and the Region Aquitaine in France, the Palestinian Ministry for Youth and Sports and the governorate and the municipality of Hebron.
A great sucess for the Play Festival in Ramallah (29-31 October)!
EJE completed its third Play Festival called “Play, Education and Development”in Palestine in Ramallah and Al Bireh district. The festival was held from the 29th to the 31st of October with the collaboration with the Palestinian Ministry for Youth and Sports, Al Bireh municipality and the Children Happiness center of Al Bireh. It was one of the activities proposed by the World Education Forum (WEF), which was held for the first time in Palestine.
Workshops in international popular wooden games, June-July 2010
Play, Education and Children (EJE) continues its efforts in pursuing the educational development of Palestinian children and spreading the importance of play in the community, through various activities and project, including the building of wooden games.
With the support of the French organization Secours Catholique, EJE organized this summer three training sessions in making traditional wooden games. The first session (24-26th of June) aimed at training 12 Palestinian animators and volunteers who work with the children at EJE play and activities centers. They come from all other the West Bank ( Al Aroub, Deir ammar, Shufat, and Alqbat Jaber refugee camps and Bethlehem).
The team could benefit from training on various aspects of wooden games: the rules; building the games from cardboard; using the machines; the technics to use colours and how to decorate the games.
A new very successful summer camp!
The camp was organized by EJE and was held from August 2 to 7 at Talitha Kumi, Beit Jala. Sixty children came from five refugee camps in the West Bank for fun and experience new activities for a week.
Fraternity Cup (April 18 to April 28, France)
EJE has participated to the Fraternity Cup, organized by the Voice of the Child (VDE), with the assistance of Diambars Mani Football Forever and Laureus France. The cup has hold in France from 18 to 28 April 2010.
During this unique event, children from 12 countries (Senegal, Cameroon, South Africa, Brazil, Argentina, Palestine, Israel, Guyana, Norway, Romania, Morocco and India) have joined in |France to meet 4 French teams during a championship to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The Fraternity Cup aims to educate young people about the universal themes of respect and tolerance in particular to: promote the fundamental values of sport and to serve society; meet and discover each other in their differences; and promote the mixing of cultures.
A reflection has been realized upstream with children about their rights and the necessity to fight against discrimination, racism and prejudice.
The EJE play and animation centers joined enthusiastically this beautiful project. Teams from all centers met in Bethlehem for a championship in January. This championship was the occasion for some, especially for girls, to actually discover football for the first time. If some proved initially very shy, they were able to subsequently assert themselves and enjoy the games, and three will travel to France alongside 4 boys, to compose a mixed team.
Preparations for the journey in France has been the opportunity to develop their knowledge of the game but also their rights. A specific training was organized in March.
